12/20/13

Links:

Ambrose Bierce, just the first two pages

Thika, Einstein, Hayak

page Math Mammoth, hour reading (Pride and Prejudice, Treasure Island, Adventures of Reddy Fox on the reader)

 Quiz (spaces removed here):

 

12/20/13 Quiz

1.  Tell me about the three women in “The Flame Trees of Thika”.  What kind of people are they?  What kind of women are they?  How are they alike?  How are they different?  Are some more sympathetic than others?  Less?  Do the characters change as the book goes on?

Don’t answer the questions one by one, give a complete answer describing and comparing the women, and evaluating them, and answer the questions within your essay.

2.  What is a “mission boy”

3.  Why is the district commissioner not to worried about one of the Kikuyu being imprisoned unfairly?

4.  Explain how scientists can measure distance using radar waves.

5.  When Einstein developed his theories, he could attempt to prove them mathematically but could not attempt to prove many of them experimentally.  Later, others were able to confirm his predictions using experiments.  Why did the experiments have to wait?

6.  Gravity affects light because light has m_______.

7.  Massive objects alter both s_______ and t_________.

8.  Light passing close to the sun, for example, will slow down / speed up as measured by a distant observer.  

9. Hayak doesn’t believe government should “plan” the economy in such a way that there is one central plan that governs every part of the economy and that people are coerced to follow;  but he does believe we should “plan” the economy in that we work in

such a way that the economy allows for as much useful c______________ as possible.

10. If you have competition, Hayak believes you will have better results, but he also believes there will be less government coercion.  What does coercion mean?

11.  Give one example of something Hayak feels the government needs to step in and do to protect the free market.

12.  Why did they burn Sammy’s hut?

Extra Credit

1.  What school is MIT?

2. Give me an example of an area where Hayak believes full, free competition will not work.

3.  It’s all right to make reasonable regulations that are a burden on a company as long as the regulation does what?

4.  Give a short description of individual animals we have “met” so far in Thika – one point per good description.